A Survey on Practice and Prevalence of Self-Medication with Antibiotic by Parents of Children

Abstract

A questioner based survey ‘‘practice and prevalence of self-medication with antibiotic by parents of children” was conducted on parents of children in Rajshahi city have required antibiotic in the last 6 months. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of selfmedication tendency of children by parents bear recognizing antibiotic usage and resistance. The prevalence was very low.02% and most parents preferred visiting the doctor or dispensary attendant to obtain the medication. Almost 67.2% parents through that their child’s health status was moderate to fairly poor. Antibiotic that is self-medicated highest tendency was Tetracycline although most parents preferred to the professional help upon child’s diseases condition. When asked about antibiotic resistance, most parents had no idea about what the term meant of how it is recalled to misuse or discontinuation of antibiotic therapy. To stop the abuse of antibiotic in Bangladesh and development of resistance antibiotic prescription should be closely monitored awareness should be spread about the consequence of misuse of antibiotic.